Hello, I too am a long time user and occasional poster to this forum. I have used PHPList successfully for many years and am very thankful to all the developers and people who have made this possible.

I cannot figure out why my cron job is not working in 3.0.12 and is not firing and starting or sending the emails.

I am using:PHP version 5.4.39 MySQL version 5.5.42-37.1-logall on Bluehost.com

My cron is set to fire every two minutes and previously worked fine with these settings in my config.php file:define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE",10); define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_PERIOD",69);define('MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE',2);

I was using PHPList version 3.0.5 with no issues until I upgraded to 3.0.12

and this did not begin the job or fire the emails either. I tried many variation of this cron code but could not get the job to begin sending.

Luckily, when I upgraded to 3.0.12 I only renamed the old 3.0.5 version to /lists-previous so I was able to rename the current version to a temporary name and change the name of /lists-previous back to /lists and it's now working, but certainly not as I would like to have 3.0.12 online. (Aside: I'm telling you this as others may also be upgrading and this is the easiest method to revert back if the new version doesn't work as it should)

I've tried to find information regarding this secret code and cron jobs for version 3.0.12 but the information is limited and the

I don't use curl. You might want to try php, or php-cli The curl command receives a cookie and sessionid, and so that might be the cause of your problem.

make sure you adjust the full path to match exactly what your path is on your machine. depending on your machine, you might need to use the php-cli command instead of php.set the cron period to every minute, and have it send the email to you. it will tell you what's wrong. once it's working, you can stop sending emails to yourself via the cron, and adjust the timing on the cron to meet your needs... (i.e. every 5 or 10 minutes for processqueue, and about once or twice a day for processbounces).

This is for PHP-cli users. I don't know if it works with PHP-cgi. I am not an expert in any of the two interfaces. I just want to share this so we could at least help those fellow phpList users who are having the same problem.

By the way, Dan... do you know what's the best set up for speeding up the sending by batch? I am on a VPS server but I don't want to overload my server by sending unlimited emails per hour. So I want to send using the batch processing. So what I did was to configure my phpList to be able to send 480 emails per hour. Please correct me if this is not the right configuration, as I noticed that the result did not correspond to what I've configured my phpList to do. After 24 hours, my phpList did only send 2,229 emails out of 11,520 (480/hour*24=11,520).